Planetary Research Jobs

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Tenure and tenure-track faculty

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITION IN PLANETARY SCIENCE, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, USA 2026-10-15 2026-10-13
Professor in Earth and Planetary Geochemistry University of Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland 2026-10-31 2026-10-12
Faculty Position in Planetary Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA 2026-10-15 2026-10-11
Assistant Professor in Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA 2026-11-01 2026-10-01
Assistant Faculty Position – Geoscience Innovation with AI Rice University Houston, TX, USA 2026-10-15 2026-09-21
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Geology - Caltech California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, USA 2026-09-16
Professor - Planetary Science Cornell University Ithaca, New York, USA 2026-11-14 2026-09-16
Assistant Professor in Geochemical Applications to Climate and Environmental Sciences Brown University Providence, RI, USA 2026-10-26 2026-09-15
Assistant Professor, Solid Earth Processes McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2026-10-16 2026-08-04
Assistant Professor in Geophysics Stanford Stanford, California, USA 2026-10-19 2026-07-30
Tenure-track faculty: Experimental space physics University of Iowa Iowa City, USA 2026-06-28

Non-tenure track faculty

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
Planetary Scientist (JUICE) European Space Agency (ESA) Noordwijk or Villanueva de la Cañada, The Netherlands, Spain 2026-10-13 2026-09-23

Visiting positions

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
Visiting Researcher position in Space Physics within the Space Plasma Physics programme at IRF Uppsala, Sweden Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) Uppsala, Sweden 2026-10-31 2026-10-05
ESA Archival Research Visitor Programme ESAC (Madrid, Spain), (Noordwijk, Netherlands) Spain, Netherlands 2026-10-31 2026-08-30

Postdocs and fellowships

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego San Diego, CA, US 2026-11-08 2026-10-11
UTIG Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) 2027-01-15 2026-10-11
Research Associate in Planetary Atmospheric Science University of Leicester Leicester, United Kingdom 2026-11-05 2026-10-06
Postdoctoral Research Associate - solar system planetary science University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA 2026-11-22 2026-10-06
Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragon (CEFCA) is looking for four postdoctoral researchers Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragon (CEFCA) Teruel, Spain 2026-11-15 2026-10-05
Potential highly qualified postdoc position at University of Alicante (Spain) University of Alicante (UA) Spain 2026-10-25 2026-09-29
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowships Starting in 2027 at the Earth and Planets Laboratory Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, DC, USA 2026-11-01 2026-09-27
Postdoctoral Research Scholars at the Intersection of Planet Formation and Shock Physics Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, USA 2026-11-01 2026-09-27
Pan Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University Rice University Houston, TX, USA 2026-10-25 2026-09-24
Job Announcement for a Postdoctoral Research Associate Brown University Providence, RI, USA 2026-09-24
NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Postdoctoral Fellowship U.S. host institution of the fellow's choice USA 2026-10-28 2026-09-22
Eight postdoctoral positions in the multiscale physics of clouds across planetary atmospheres - multiple locations internationally multiple 2026-12-04 2026-09-22
Postdoctoral Positions in Exoplanet Modelling The Open University of Israel Raanana, Israel 2026-12-30 2026-09-22
Postdoctoral Researcher – Asteroid Seismology ISAE-SUPAERO Toulouse, France 2026-10-31 2026-09-18
LunaSCOPE Postdoctoral Fellowship Brown University Providence, RI, USA 2026-10-15 2026-09-17
Submillimeter spectroscopy of sublimated interstellar and planetary ices NASA USA 2026-11-01 2026-09-16
Two Postdoctoral Positions in Cometary Astrophysics: Linking Orbital Dynamics, Thermal evolution and Surface Photometry Institute of Astronomy and NAO, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia, Bulgaria 2026-10-31 2026-09-14
Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical Planetary/Exoplanetary Science Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Shanghai, China 2026-12-31 2026-09-10
6 postdoc positions on habitability as a fundamental planetary process Freie Univ. Berlin, TU Berlin, DLR, RUB Boschum, Univ. Wien, TU Dresden Germany 2026-06-17

Ph.D. positions

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
DPhil Projects in Planetary and Exoplanetary Physics Oxford University Oxford, UK 2026-10-08
Fully Funded PhD Positions in Cosmochemistry and Meteoritics Rice University Houston, United States 2026-12-31 2026-10-08
Graduate Opportunity in the Florida Planets Lab, UF University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA 2026-09-28
PhD opportunities in the Purdue Magnetics Laboratory Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA 2026-09-28
PhD position NCCR Genesis: combining remote and in-situ life detection techniques. University of Bern Bern, Switzerland 2026-09-24
PhD position NCCR Genesis: remote sensing of microorganisms in extreme environments University of Bern Bern, Switzerland 2026-09-24
LCLU PhD Studentships University of Cambridge UK 2026-12-08 2026-09-24
Two PhD Student Positions in interdisciplinary space science and planetary research Austrian Academy of Sciences Graz, Austria 2026-10-31 2026-09-21
PhD positions in space and astrophysics Technical University Braunschweig Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany 2026-10-31 2026-09-01
PhD Position in Lunar Science and Exploration, Planetary Geology The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 2026-12-01 2026-07-15
PhD position: Coupled interior-atmosphere evolution of temperate rocky planets NCCR Genesis, University of Geneva, ETH Zürich Switzerland 2026-07-02
18 Ph.D. positions on habitability as a fundamental planetary process Freie Univ. Berlin, TU Berlin, DLR, RUB Boschum, Univ. Wien, TU Dresden Germany 2026-06-17

Master positions

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
Master 2 internship - Analysis of Perseverance rover data Université Grenoble-Alpes Grenoble, France 2026-12-21 2026-09-25

Science management

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
JPL Deputy Director Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Pasadena, CA, USA 2026-09-28

Scientific and technical staff

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
Data Analyst Intuitive Machines Phoenix Phoenix, AZ, USA 2026-10-03
Senior AI/ML Scientist, Planetary Science Relativity Space Long Beach, CA, USA 2026-06-29
AI/ML Scientist, Planetary Science Relativity Space Long Beach, CA, USA 2026-06-29

Outreach and education

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
Sponsored Projects Manager Planetary Science Institute Tucson, AZ, USA 2026-10-13
Curator of Griffith Observatory Griffith Observatory Los Angeles, CA, USA 2026-10-29 2026-09-28
Science Communications Manager/Public Information Officer (PIO) Planetary Science Institute Tucson, AZ, USA 2026-06-16

Other positions

Title Institution Location Deadline Posted
Chateaubriand Fellowship Program (US PhD collaboration in France) France 2027-01-18 2026-10-09
Call for Europlanet Machine Learning Working Group Co-Chair Europlanet 2026-11-30 2026-09-28
Call for Europlanet Early Careers (EPEC) Co-Chair EuroPlanet 2026-10-31 2026-09-08
The Planetary Research Cooperative is looking for motivated volunteers to serve as Media Coordinators Planetary Research Cooperative 2026-09-02
DPS SEEKS A NEW SECRETARY DPS 2026-07-27
DPS SEEKS A NEW EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR DPS 2026-07-27